Thorium the future of Energy & Transportation

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In very general
and broad terms the Mission of LPS is to create an economic boom for the
area in which it is located, providing high paying jobs with full benefits,
provide a growing tax base for the expansion of local infrastructure (school,
hospitals, roads, utilities, government building and services) wail maintaining
a high quality of life. The R&D center will have a secondary spin off
effect on the local economy in many other areas such as hospitality,
construction, transportation. This in turn will create an industrial base that
will impact the world economy with new cutting edge technology in health care,
bio-tech, nanotechnology, manufacturing and alternative energy
technologies that will provide the world with clean green energy slowing global
warming and stimulate and developing sustainable economic progress, There are just as many definitions for it. Ours is "meeting the needs of our stakeholders today,
while preserving choices for future generations to meet their needs".

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NOW Imagine a NEW power generators systems that is small, cheap to build, safe to operate, can be used to power homes, business, cars, trucks, ships, and even planes and spacecraft!!

Laser Power Systems (LPS) was
founded in 2007 with offices in Sturbridge, MA and Bethel, CT. LPS has a proven and experienced Management
Team combined with influential business partners and industry alliances. LPS is
focused on the bulk of the $150 billion market over the next decade to build a
clean sustainable energy future by
delivering proprietary, patent and trade secret cutting edge energy technology. This will successfully create
an alternative to oil, gas, coal and conventional Nuclear power plants as well
as replacement technology for the internal combustion engines. LPS has already
created a strong sales pipeline with several immediate multi-million dollar
contracts and letters of intent.

LPS offers Transformative
technology in a hyper-growth market opportunity with strong IRR potential for
investors. LPS is currently seeking structured millions in growth capital from
a reputable Institutional Investor.

Welcome

The
investment opportunity is not in the thorium itself, it's in the technology
that unlocks the value of thorium.Right now, thorium
is so "worthless" that the US government buried 3200 metric tons of
it in the Nevada desert due to lack of demand. If it was economically advantageous
to go and put thorium in today's light-water reactors, it would have already
been done. This has been looked at for decades, examined in documents like
WASH-1059, and even attempted in the last core of the Shippingport reactor. Can
it be done? Yes. Is it economically advantageous? No.

Create a new era in sustainable green technologies Revitalization the US economy by bringing back large scale high tech manufacturing

This is intended to be a location for discussion and
education about the value of thorium as a future energy source. Despite the
fact that our world is desperately searching for new sources of energy, the value
of thorium is not well-understood, even in the "nuclear engineering"
community.

The fundamental basis for considering nuclear energy
over chemical energy is the binding energy released in each case. Chemical
energy is released when the electron configuration of atoms is rearranged
through a chemical process (combustion, digestion, etc.) Electrons are bound to
nuclei with binding energies measured in electron volts (eV).

The protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus, on the
other hand, are bound with energies measured in millions of electron volts
(MeV). Thus, rearranging the nucleus of an atom (through fusion or fission)
releases roughly a million times more energy than chemical energy release.

Laser Power Systems has spent more than 20 years in the
quiet research and development of Uranium and thorium-fueled High-energy and
Ultra-High energy lasers. LPS is now ready to make its research public and
offer-for the first time in history - safe, clean, affordable, abundant,
carbon-free energy on a global scale.

In the past ten years, computer technology was developed
that allowed us to move thorium forward as a viable fuel source. The key factor
in the computer analysis is discerning the difference in the reactions of
thorium and U235.

The LPS MaxFelaser
fueled Thorium laser can produce electricity for less than $0.01 per
kilowatt-hour

The natural abundance of thorium, its low cost of mining
and milling, the low volume of waste produced, and its lower long-term
radiotoxicity mean that the LPS MaxFelaser systems.

Uses fuel
that—mass for mass—is 500 times cheaper and produces about 18 million time
more energy than Coal.

has
less than 50% of the capital costs, based on a design philosophy of robust
mechanical simplicity

Project
Description: R & D and manufacturing complex for the building of Laser
Turbine Power Systems, ahighly differentiated, unique and significantly superior product.

There are four basic nuclear "fuels" found
in nature: deuterium, lithium, thorium, and uranium. Deuterium is an isotope of
hydrogen that is found wherever hydrogen is found (such as water). Lithium is a
light metal found in lake evaporates. In a traditional fusion reactor, lithium
is converted to tritium (another hydrogen isotope) and then fused with
deuterium, releasing energy and additional neutrons. But fusion is
fundamentally difficult because positively charged particles tend to repel each
other strongly, and only extraordinary temperatures, magnetic confinement, and
complicated engineering can coax them to fuse. Despite all this effort, the
goal of economical fusion energy is distant and perhaps unreachable, even if
the physics can be conquered.

Fission of uranium or thorium, on the other hand, is
much easier because neutrons are used to induce destabilization and splitting
of the nucleus. The neutron is uncharged, so there is no magnetic repulsion to
contend with in the fission process. No magnetic confinement or vacuum chambers
are required either. The downside of fission is the generation of unstable,
neutron-rich fission products that seek stability through successive beta
decay.

Fission of natural uranium requires the construction
of reactors that maintain high neutron energies (fast-spectrum reactors) throughout
their operation. This is because the fission of plutonium-239 (the result of
neutron absorption in uranium-238, the dominant isotope) does not produce
enough neutrons to sustain the process unless it is bombarded by high-energy
neutrons.

Fission of natural thorium, on the other hand, is much
easier because its absorption product (uranium-233) produces enough neutrons
from collision with a slowed-down (thermal) neutron to sustain the fission
reaction, given that the reactor is designed to be frugal with its neutrons.
This feature, and the abundance of thorium worldwide, gives thorium a profound
advantage over the other nuclear fuels for sustained energy generation.

Thorium is abundant in the Earth's crust and
widespread across the United States and around the world: The major
distinguishing factors between thorium and fusion are feasibility and power
density.

Controlled thermonuclear fusion is intensely
difficult. The more you learn about it, the more you realize just how
difficult. It's easy to point to the Sun as an "existence-proof" for
fusion, but the fusion type and conditions in the Sun are totally different
than what we try to do on the ground. The fundamental reason that fusion is so
difficult is that positively-charged nuclei repel each other strongly. To give
them enough energy to overcome this repulsion, you must get them very hot. So
hot that measuring temperature in degrees kind of breaks down, and we go to
measuring temperature in electron-volts. The typical temperature needed in a
deuterium-tritium fusion reactor (the easiest one to build) is about 10,000
electron-volts, or about 200 million degrees Fahrenheit. Even at these
temperatures, fusion of nuclei is still very improbable. Most interactions
simply scatter (deflect) away from one another. Only once in a great while do
you have a head-on collision that doesn't scatter, and then you can have a
fusion reaction and energy release. This is why the other two components of the
Lawson criteria (the basic blueprint of fusion) come into play: density and
confinement.

You have to have the nuclei hot enough, you have to
have enough of them, and you have to keep them there long enough for fusion. Up
to this point, we have not built a fusion machine that maintains these
conditions in sufficient quantity to release more energy than it consumes. We
may someday, but we haven't yet.

Even if we did build such a machine, it would have a
very low power density. This is because fusion plasmas are a pretty good
vacuum, and the amount of fusion power taking place (per unit volume) is pretty
low. So you need a very big machine. And a fusion machine is not a simple
machine. It's essentially a very, very good vacuum chamber, surrounded by
intensely power superconducting magnets, held together by a huge steel superstructure
to keep it from ripping itself apart. (the magnets don't like each other) As if
this wasn't enough, it also needs to be a nuclear breeder reactor, converting
the neutrons from D-T fusion into more tritium. This is done by surrounding the
inner chamber with lithium (the precursor of tritium) and beryllium (as a
neutron multiplier). And all the extraction systems to remove gaseous tritium
generated in the breeding blanket. Contrast that with a thorium reactor, which
operates at relatively low temperatures (<1000 K), has no magnets, vacuum
chamber or high-pressure systems, and no huge superstructure holding it
together. A liquid-fluoride thorium reactor is very power dense, compared to
fusion, meaning that it physically has a smaller "footprint" and could
conceivably be built small enough to fit in submarines or trailers. You won't
be able to do that with a fusion machine.